History of Education Salon | Education and the Body

The first ISCHE online History of Education Salon took place in 2017, when, over the month of April, a discussion took place on education and the body. Members of ISCHE were invited to provide comments on the initial videos in which leading scholars offered thoughts, provocations and questions. The period for contributions to this salon has now closed.

body fallacies (blog post from Pablo Scharagrodsky)

I have listened and, above all, felt beautiful problematizations from Georges Vigarello, a classic author that always worth re-reading, Mona Gleason, Pieter Verstraete, Rebecca Rogers and Inés Dussel. From different approaches and questions, the authors problematize bodies and, in particular, their materiality, accepting in some way Foucault s sentence: “Historically, bodies have been objects and targets of power.” From re-significations

le corps saisi (blog post from Rebecca Rogers)

As the organizer of this first History of education salon, I thought it might be interesting to comment on what this experience offered me, as an historian of education who hasn’t paid a great deal of attention to the body in her own scholarship. And yet, when I think back, schoolgirl bodies are present in all of my writings since

Georges Vigarello “Education and the Body”

This video from Georges Vigarello (École des hautes études en sciences sociales – Paris, France) is one of four lead off recordings in which historians discuss education and the body as part of the ISCHE April 2017 History of Education Salon. Captions available in French and English. Please feel free to add comments below or craft your own blog post

Mona Gleason “Education and the Body”

This video from Mona Gleason (University of British Columbia, Canada) is one of four lead off recordings in which historians discuss education and the body as part of the ISCHE April 2017 History of Education Salon.  Captions available in English. Please feel free to add comments below or craft your own blog post to contribute to the conversation.

Inés Dussel “Education and the Body”

This video from Inés Dussel (DIE-CINVESTAV, Mexico) is one of four lead off recordings in which historians discuss education and the body as part of the ISCHE April 2017 History of Education Salon.  Captions available in English and Spanish. Please feel free to add comments below or craft your own blog post to contribute to the conversation.

Pieter Verstraete “Education and the Body”

This video from Pieter Verstraete (KU Leuven, Belgium) is one of four lead off recordings in which historians discuss education and the body as part of the ISCHE April 2017 History of Education Salon.  Captions available in English. Please feel free to add comments below or craft your own blog post to contribute to the conversation.